Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
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Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game (2015)
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#2Some people have the ability to synthesise and evaluate particular ideas faster than average.
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#3Some people have the ability to synthesise and evaluate particular ideas faster than average.
This is definitely a help. I've created a LOT of crap, but I've had a good number of successes solely due to quantity. However, 80% of success really is showing up. You have to try, and not get discouraged. I was dirt poor as a kid, homeless twice before age 9, and I've had to rebuild my life twice as an adult. Simply pushing forward was a huge part of my success today.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And once you succeed, KEEP TRYING.
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#4I view humans in a universe like a computer program that brute-forces to find a better solution. You can have some people do everything right and nothing ever works out for them. While you can have the opposite happen. The anomalies/survivorship bias gets the most media attention and keeps the rat race going. Sometimes this makes me think the universe is just the outcome of brute-forcing as well.
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#5Numbers, if your lens is statistics. But human behavior is about um...human behavior. Creativity is about a willingness to experiment; to not fear "failure"; and to learn.
Nothing has triggered more creative ideas than asking "what if?"
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#6I don’t dispute most of the factual claims in this article.
But this whole lens on what creativity “is” smacks of someone really hoping something so mysterious can be explained using concrete and easy to understand concepts.
I’ve personally known and worked with some real creative powerhouses.
This sort of article doesn’t really address what makes them effective. It especially doesn’t describe how they seem to think about it, which, I would say is the most interesting topic.
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#7I don’t dispute most of the factual claims in this article. But this whole lens on what creativity “is” smacks of someone really hoping something so mysterious can be explained using concrete and easy to understand concepts. I’ve personally known and worked with some real creative powerhouses. This sort of article doesn’t really address what makes them effective. It especially doesn’t describe how they seem to think…
Out of curiosity, what were some of your observations from working with these creative powerhouses?
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#8Some people have the ability to synthesise and evaluate particular ideas faster than average.
This is definitely a help. I've created a LOT of crap, but I've had a good number of successes solely due to quantity. However, 80% of success really is showing up. You have to try, and not get discouraged. I was dirt poor as a kid, homeless twice before age 9, and I've had to rebuild my life twice as an adult. Simply pushing forward was a huge part of my success today. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.…
The difference between a failed businessperson and a successful one is the successful one tried again.
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#9I don’t dispute most of the factual claims in this article. But this whole lens on what creativity “is” smacks of someone really hoping something so mysterious can be explained using concrete and easy to understand concepts. I’ve personally known and worked with some real creative powerhouses. This sort of article doesn’t really address what makes them effective. It especially doesn’t describe how they seem to think…
One podcast I've found to be interesting from the perspective of studying creativity is WTF with Marc Maron.
Especially among great comedians, the process described in the article is essentially the process many people interviewed by Marc have followed.
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#10Creativity is as much a numbers game as Monopoly (the literal board game) is a numbers game: it is and it isn't.
Sure, I mean you can use statistics and wave your magic eugenics wand around but I see right through you. It's a disgrace that in the modern neoliberal hegemony a crock of shit like this gets published in an outlet like Scientific American.